Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 305 Ayahuasca and the Priest
He's crazy?
Adele frowned, feeling that this matter was not as simple as she had imagined.

As the name suggests, ayahuasca is a potion made from tropical plants such as ayahuasca and nine-section grass. It was once popular among the residents of the Balam Empire who worshipped the god of death. Even now, indigenous soldiers in the colonies still use ayahuasca as a medicine to fight parasites.

After taking this potion, the user will experience symptoms such as vomiting, fever, tremors, and severe hallucinations, which will cause the user to behave in ways that are difficult to explain under normal circumstances. Priests who believe in the god of death regard it as a revelation from God.

However, the safe dosage of ayahuasca has not been concluded by wizards and night watchmen until now, so in the countries of the northern continent, this medicine is banned by governments. Only a small number of unscrupulous pharmacists will prepare it and sell it to drug addicts for profit.

When Adele lived in the East End, she had seen similar potions several times and had a certain understanding of the effects of this addictive drug. However, this was the first time she had seen symptoms as obvious as his.

Although many thoughts flashed through Adele's mind at this moment, her hands did not slow down at all.

Ignoring the panicked smokers beside her, Adele suddenly raised her leg and kicked the stall owner's deformed head with a high whip kick with a sharp sound of wind, and at the same time pulled back her hand that was held by the other party.

Of course, Adele had perfect control over her body. According to her judgment, this kick would at most make the opponent unconscious, with possible minor bone fractures and concussion, but would not be fatal.

However, the moment the iron-covered leather boot kicked the side of the opponent's head, Adele immediately noticed something unusual: the opponent's head was too soft, as if the gorgeous feather ornaments covered not a hard skull, but a swollen abscess.

When Adele realized that something was wrong, she was no longer able to stop her strength. She could only temporarily twist her waist and turn her body, changing the leg that was sweeping towards her head into a diagonal chop towards her neck.

This action indeed saved the guy's life. The hasty change of direction and the kick formed an exaggerated "<" shape on his neck and head, but he did not die.

When he was kicked, the opponent's tall head swayed back and forth like jelly, and even the wrinkles on his face were pulled into normal shape by the shaking upper half of his head.

Fuck, this is a bit weird...

Adele gasped. If she had not reacted when she saw the man's deformed head before, and just regarded him as a victim of backward customs, the scene she saw now was enough to make her revise her judgment of this person:

This is not something that the fooled people can do by relying on brute force and life experience. At least this gelatinous skull structure is definitely not something that can grow naturally. This guy has been polluted, and to a serious extent!

The stall owner was kicked to his knees on the ground, and the people around him saw that the situation was not good and fled in all directions. Adele knew that the official Beyonders would be here soon.

Because she was going to a party, Adele had no weapons with her, and even her hidden blade was left at the Marine Headquarters.

If possible, try to avoid direct conflict. As long as he has no intention of attacking others, leave him to professional official Beyonders to deal with...

Adele quickly thought of a countermeasure and then calmed her mind. Countless invisible threads spread out from her body, forming an invisible large net around the stall owner.

Finally, under Adele's vigilant gaze, he slowly got up from the ground. Many of the feathers originally tied on his head had fallen off, so he half-knelt on the ground, clumsily picking up those colorful feathers and trying to fix them back to the side of his head.

The strap that tied the feathers broke. He tried several times but failed. Finally, he simply poked the sharp feathers at the end under his scalp and tried to stir it a few times to make sure it was fixed properly.

What flowed out of his wounds was not bright red blood, but a black body fluid that looked similar to ayahuasca. The sticky black liquid dripped onto the ground, bubbling like boiling water.

The other person's voice had completely lost the gentleness it had at the beginning, and it was now making a "hehe" sound like an old bellows. Adele had to use all her strength to hear clearly what the other person was saying.

"Why... don't you drink..."

His inarticulate voice was filled with the rage of a mad dog; the last bottle of ayahuasca had completely taken away his sanity.

"What do you see?"

Ignoring the other party's question, Adele asked back calmly.

"I saw it. I saw the edge of the Kingdom of God..."

It seemed that Adele's question reminded him of his previous hallucination, and the priest's expression suddenly became confused and relaxed.

He seemed to be trying hard to recall something, but unfortunately this recollection did not last long. His expression became distorted again due to his own injuries and pain, and his eyeballs turned completely dark black.

It's coming... Adele's spiritual intuition suddenly warned her. Although the witch's spiritual premonition was not as convenient as that of a fortune teller, who could directly see the other party's next move, she could still detect danger to a certain extent.

I don’t know if he is a Beyonder, but even if he is, his sequence should not be very high. So even if he mutates, the abilities he can use are very limited, and he is likely to mainly use physical attacks...

Woo!
Strong winds blew out of the priest's body, blowing up the colorful feathers on his body and revealing his cracked skin.

The branches of the nearby roadside trees broke and flew into the air, with sharp wood chips flying everywhere.

A group of smokers who were frightened by the changes in the body of the stall owner who was a descendant of a priest and were lying limp on the ground were involuntarily lifted up and thrown several meters away, feeling pain all over their bodies.

Not only them, but everything within a dozen meters of the roadside was blown away by the sudden strong wind, some flew to different locations, some stumbled and fell to the ground, rolling around like a ball.

Adele's body was also blown up, but every time she was about to leave the ground, she was able to adjust her body with her strong core strength. She was about to be blown away, but she was never blown off the ground.

The ability to manipulate the wind... Is he a Beyonder of the Sailor Path?
Adele spun nimbly to avoid the debris that hit her. At the same time, she clasped her hands together in front of her chest, and an ice spear condensed from her hand. She turned around and was about to throw it into the center of the storm.

However, at this moment, a blazing white flaming dragon rushed out from the center of the storm, with a wingspan of at least three meters. Taking advantage of the gusts of wind that had not completely disappeared, it rushed towards the unstable Adele at an extremely fast speed.

What kind of trick is this?! Before Adele could even react, the dazzling fire dragon was already biting towards her with its fangs and claws bared.

At the critical moment, Adele's body was suddenly pulled into the air by an external force like a puppet about to leave the stage, and rose three meters in a strange posture. The scorching fire dragon almost brushed the hem of her windbreaker and flew past her and exploded behind her.

Boom!

The violent explosion ignited the herb cart and the roadside grocery stall, and the air wave caused Adele's figure to stagger again. However, this time she was in the air, and she easily resolved the impact of the impact and shortened the distance between herself and the fallen one.

If she and Vinata had not practiced enough times so that her body had an instinctive reaction after seeing the fire, this blow would have most likely seriously injured her.

Since the women's dress that Emlyn chose for her had no pockets, she didn't even bring her wand of substitution. The buildings nearby were also quite old, and she couldn't find a place to cast the mirror substitute for the time being. If she was hit, she would be finished.

What’s going on with this guy? Does he have any magical items on him?
Adele used the invisible thin line to adjust her body shape and rushed towards the descendant of the priest at the center of the explosion. The feeling of kicking him just now was not wrong. The guy's head was a weak point, and a powerful blow should be enough to solve the opponent.

When fighting against an arsonist of the same sequence at a distance, the witch would be at a disadvantage - this was the experience Adele gained from the battle with Vinata.

Before reaching Sequence 5 and gaining the ability to control disease, although the witch is powerful overall, she cannot gain an advantage over hunters of the same sequence in simple ranged attacks or close combat.

After all, the only skill that is truly suitable for use at medium and long distances for a witch is the Ice Lance, and her physical fitness bonus is not as much as that of a hunter. If she really fights in an open battlefield with no cover or obstruction, the witch is not as strong as the hunter on paper.

Of course, this is just a paper strength. After all, the witch's strengths are still the means of containment, attack and flexible multi-stage displacement achieved through silk threads, which allows her to fight with opponents who are higher in sequence than herself in complex terrain. When the opponent is preparing for a long-range attack, she can release black fire or assassinate at close range, and when the opponent is ready to engage in a fight, she can rely on her high mobility to distance herself.

Therefore, the strength of the witch depends more on the user's own experience, unlike the arsonist, who sometimes just needs to throw fireballs mindlessly.

Adele's figure quickly moved closer, but just as she was about to get close to the priest and infect him with black fire, she suddenly saw his body swell up strangely like a balloon, and his fat flesh slowly cracked, spilling out a yellow-green liquid.

No way……

Adele did not dare to delay at all, and immediately stopped, pulling and tugging with both hands. The invisible silk thread that was originally spread between the two of them instantly materialized, forming a dense white spider web.

Just as the spider web took shape, the priest's body exploded forward strangely, and more than half of the flesh on his chest and lower abdomen was shot out by the impact of the explosion of gas in his abdominal cavity. Thick white mist immediately rose from whatever was touched, and an unpleasant smell filled the air.

The palm-sized pieces of flesh were firmly caught in the materialized spider web and stuck to it, causing the thin silk threads to droop down as if they could break at any time.

This is the flesh and blood magic of the Rose Bishop... He, no, how many abilities does it have?
Adele took two steps back again and watched the deformed and ugly priest slowly recover in the center of the smoke. The Rose Bishop's flesh and blood magic was also very good in this area, and he should be able to return to normal soon.

Of course, the other party's state is far from being called "normal": the pure black eyeballs have completely lost their rationality, full of madness, and the skin has become smooth and colorful, like the epidermis of some aquatic creatures;

He let out a gasp that seemed to come from the depths of hell, and countless slippery, disgusting tentacles emerged from the gaps between his feathers, making him look like the experimental product of a mad scientist studying the theory of species evolution.

The moment she heard the other person's low breathing, Adele understood the source of the other person's abnormality.

She had seen this mutated creature just a few days ago, no, perhaps thousands of years ago.

The creatures in the waters surrounding the mysterious island and the mutated police officers in Qiao Qiao's world have all undergone similar changes, except that they do not yet have complex extraordinary abilities.

Now it seems that the black ayahuasca is likely mixed with pollution from underground sources...

Adele was a little scared. From her experience, if that guy had suddenly spit out ayahuasca and she hadn't dodged it, she would probably have turned into a monster like him.

However, before you start to worry, you have to solve the problem first.

Adele reached out her hand again and grabbed hard in the air, as if she was grasping something together.

The next second, several thin dents appeared out of thin air on the monster's gel-like swaying head. They wrapped around the priest's body for several weeks, almost squeezing into the tender flesh that had not yet grown skin.

As early as the beginning, Adele had already tied up the monster's body with silk threads, but the thin threads had not yet materialized and could not be detected without clairvoyance.

In the chaos just now, she had no chance to use this move until now, when the monster forced her back with flesh and blood magic, but she also fell into a brief state of stiffness due to treatment, she decisively used this move.

"May the goddess forgive you." Adele whispered, and then more silk threads gradually materialized, completely wrapping the mutated descendant of the priest in the middle.

Black flames ignited from Adele's fingertips and spread along the white silk threads towards the struggling monster. In the blink of an eye, the pile of rotten flesh and blood was completely wrapped in flames.

Dozens of seconds later, the priest's body fell to the ground with a loud bang. Dark green liquid was still flowing on his body, but the deformed and mutated parts had been burned clean by the black fire.

It seems that it is indeed related to underground pollution, and the status is so high that even the black fire cannot burn it...

Adele stood up in silence and looked in the direction the priest had last looked. There were four chimneys surrounding the tomb of the god of death. At this moment, the smoke coming out of the chimneys was strangely hovering over the temple, not dispersing for a long time.

Did he change because he drank the ayahuasca, or did he change because he saw something he shouldn't have seen after drinking the ayahuasca? If it was the latter, what did the scene he saw represent?
Adele took a deep breath and fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)